L'upita....I get the feeling that u not gone catch her in no "black" movies.

@ lies. I would put my head on a block to say that L'upita is gettin' the shine because she is not AA. I can't say i've ever seen an AA actress being embraced the way she is...even the classy ones such as Bassett.

I'm sure you have AA actresses out here with her look but they don't have her background. AA's that look like her...i'm quite sure they are turned away for looking too black while L'upita...because she is where she is from she is automatically seen as a different negro. I'm sure if all the AA's actresses threw away their hair ...they'd get big upped but they wouldn't all of a sudden start pulling top bill in movie credits in Oscar worthy movies with an AAA-list co-star.

I see what you're saying but I just don't think we can test that theory because most black actresses/singers are so watered down and try so hard to be what they are not. If the majority of actresses carried themselves anything like Lupita and still weren't getting shine then I'd agree. But look at Grace Jones, white folks loved her look too. A black woman is like no other. When you try to be like everything else out there is when you f*ck up.

I don't want to make it seem like all that matters is what white people want but everyone has an angle and they need to work it. 24 inch straight or wavy weave might be attractive in the black community because we tend to have some self image issues but those kinds of additions only wear off your own novelty.Those women are a dime a dozen.

L'upita....I get the feeling that u not gone catch her in no "black" movies.

@ lies. I would put my head on a block to say that L'upita is gettin' the shine because she is not AA. I can't say i've ever seen an AA actress being embraced the way she is...even the classy ones such as Bassett.

I'm sure you have AA actresses out here with her look but they don't have her background. AA's that look like her...i'm quite sure they are turned away for looking too black while L'upita...because she is where she is from she is automatically seen as a different negro. I'm sure if all the AA's actresses threw away their hair ...they'd get big upped but they wouldn't all of a sudden start pulling top bill in movie credits in Oscar worthy movies with an AAA-list co-star.

I see what you're saying but I just don't think we can test that theory because most black actresses/singers are so watered down and try so hard to be what they are not. If the majority of actresses carried themselves anything like Lupita and still weren't getting shine then I'd agree. But look at Grace Jones, white folks loved her look too. A black woman is like no other. When you try to be like everything else out there is when you f*ck up.

True...but alot of AA actresses wouldn't have even got put on if they didn't conform the way they were tole to by their agents and American Society. Black folks from other places have a little more leeway in their looks and attitude because they are not seen as your typical nig.guh. Grace is also "exotical black" so I kind of place her in the same category as L'upita. Grace was embraced by white folks even back then because again...IMO...she was not AA.

Beverly Grace Jones is a Jamaican singer, actress and model. She was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica and raised by her grandparents. When she was thirteen she and her siblings moved to her parents' home in Syracuse, New York. Wikipedia

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